Teacher goes searching in the rubbish!
Good news was given to me today by Wang Meng, she has found 8 children (she thinks 1 may be too thin!), some of whom have parents who work at the uni so I will teach them on campus. They are in 3 small groups and are different ages and different sexes, perfect! They have all seen the photos from my semester 2 project and are keen to join in and willing to discuss their photos and get really involved over a few weeks. Hooray!!! I will meet them next week and start to teach them. I am happy they are in small groups, they can motivate each other and it is great practice for me. Wang Meng will translate if needed but then if their English is good enough I will do sessions with no translator! (We can contact her by phone if really necessary). 2 of them are in high school and so should have good enough English!
Then I went on the hunt for bottle labels, and at lunch saw huge posters in the dining room advertising soft drinks - Hou Rui has suggested I go to a supermarket and ask if they have something like it I can use. Could be a good backdrop, but I need to try it out. Hou Rui has also never been to Olympic Square so we will go there on our first shoot, as lots of fat kids go to the language schools near there and some learn to rollerblade which will be cool for my random portrait section! He he! So if I get enough labels I can make the backdrops over the next two days ready!
To the delight of the students I was then seen with the rubbish lady at the corner - I am collecting bottle labels for a possible backdrop, and so went to ask (with Olivers translation help) if I could take them! As students came out from lectures they saw an English teacher searching through rubbish! Not sure if it will give the right effect but its worth a try nonetheless.
Then I went on the hunt for bottle labels, and at lunch saw huge posters in the dining room advertising soft drinks - Hou Rui has suggested I go to a supermarket and ask if they have something like it I can use. Could be a good backdrop, but I need to try it out. Hou Rui has also never been to Olympic Square so we will go there on our first shoot, as lots of fat kids go to the language schools near there and some learn to rollerblade which will be cool for my random portrait section! He he! So if I get enough labels I can make the backdrops over the next two days ready!
To the delight of the students I was then seen with the rubbish lady at the corner - I am collecting bottle labels for a possible backdrop, and so went to ask (with Olivers translation help) if I could take them! As students came out from lectures they saw an English teacher searching through rubbish! Not sure if it will give the right effect but its worth a try nonetheless.

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